And when it fails (as it will), there will be immense political pressure to "maintain" or deny technical shortcomings, and we'll be right back to where we start

And when it fails (as it will), there will be immense political pressure to "maintain" or deny technical shortcomings, and we'll be right back to where we started. At least with someone like Microsoft or Apple you can constructively threaten publication of cracks, and it is their interest to fix things. If it's the government, they send people with guns after you, and to some extent those folks' employment /depends/ on the existence of cracks. "There's nothing wrong with the Secure Internet. But we need more funding to catch all these bad guys..." It's what I call a recursive ecosystem trap, where the rosy picture (things truly working) is subverted by people who can make money by repeatedly patching what's broken, and there is no incentive to make real fixes. It's dirty, and it works; the US prison system is good example of this.